The Weekend in Photos, March 7-9, 2014

March 9, 2014

Tyler Sizemore

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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal speaks during the Team 26 cyclist send-off at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn. Saturday, March 8, 2014. Team 26 will ride to Washington, D.C. over the course of four days to push for "common sense" gun legislation, making stops in Ridgefield, Greenwich, Harlem, N.Y., Morristown, N.J., Doylestown, Pa. and Baltimore, Md. along the way. The send-off featured several speakers including Team 26 founder Monte Frank and Mark Bardon, who lost his son, Daniel, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal also spoke at the event, wishing good luck to the 26 riders.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal speaks during the Team 26 cyclist send-off at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn. Saturday, March 8, 2014. Team 26 will ride to Washington, D.C. over the course of four days to push for "common sense" gun legislation, making stops in Ridgefield, Greenwich, Harlem, N.Y., Morristown, N.J., Doylestown, Pa. and Baltimore, Md. along the way. The send-off featured several speakers including Team 26 founder Monte Frank and Mark Bardon, who lost his son, Daniel, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal also spoke at the event, wishing good luck to the 26 riders.